Wide-Headed Upwards Barb Arrow 🡩
🡩 (U+1F869) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: Wide-Headed Upwards Barb Arrow is part of the Symbols family (block: Supplemental Arrows-C). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: WIDE-HEADED UPWARDS BARB ARROW depicts a direction arrow used to indicate navigation in interfaces and documents. Use it to show where to go next in a UI and to hint the next step in a workflow. It also serves as a navigation cue in long documents, guiding readers toward related sections or sequential steps. You can place it beside menu items or within tutorials to point to a continuation or an important link. Across platforms, the symbol tends to appear with similar geometry, so ensure consistent sizing and color in your design, and provide accessible text descriptions for screen readers to describe the action when the emoji is rendered or replaced by a graphic.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F869 in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
See our category page for related symbols.
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F869 - General Category:
So - Age:
7.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Supplemental Arrows-C - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A1 A9 - UTF-16:
D83E DC69 - UTF-32:
0001F869 - HTML dec:
🡩 - HTML hex:
🡩 - JS escape:
\u{1F869} - Python \N{}:
\N{WIDE-HEADED UPWARDS BARB ARROW} - Python \U:
\U0001F869 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A1%A9 - CSS escape:
\1F869
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F869 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🡩 (hex) or 🡩 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.